New research aims to understand how two populations of North Pacific resident killer whales find food and what they eat. Scientists studied two populations of fish-eating killer whales: the Southern Residents and the southern Alaska residents. They wanted to know if these two populations of fish-eating killer whales eat different things and how their […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, joined Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and several of his colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) demanding answers regarding the implementation of the DOC’s new financial management system. This financial management system has disrupted National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) […]
Funding will strengthen NOAA’s Climate-Ready Coasts initiative Friday, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce and NOAA have recommended $78.9 million for projects in Alaska to make the state’s coast more resilient to climate change and other coastal hazards. The awards are being made under the Biden Administration’s Climate Resilience Regional […]
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have long been prevalent in the waters off the Kodiak archipelago, with the toxins produced by species such as Alexandrium catenella historically posing a threat to the health of communities. Alexandrium produces saxitoxin, a neurotoxin which can accumulate in shellfish and cause severe illness or death in those who consume it. The prevalence of Alexandrium blooms is likely […]